Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Galloway , Scotland, or to its historic people, language and culture. - adjective Of or pertaining to
Galway , Ireland, or to its residents. - noun Someone from Galloway.
- noun Someone from Galway.
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Examples
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John, wilt look starch and stiff enough for her Galwegian maid of honour, the Countess Hermigild; and Dwining shall present the old Hecate, her nurse — only she hath more beard on her upper lip than Dwining on his whole face, and skull to boot.
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Think some ingain think, as Teakortairer sate over the Galwegian caftan forewhen Orops and Aasas were chooldrengs and micramacrees!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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A rim was pressed to her lips and she tasted the appalling burn of Galwegian usquebaugh.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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The young knight rode a solid dun cob and had a tubby Galwegian pack pony on a leading rein.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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With his Galwegian brogue, Jones was particularly suspect.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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With his Galwegian brogue, Jones was particularly suspect.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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The most suggestive point in the "Flyting" is that a native of the Lothians could still regard a Galwegian as a "beggar Irish bard".
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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Accordingly, the Knights of the Round Table did not recoil with more terror from the apparition of the loathly lady placed between an oak and a green holly, than Lucy Bertram and Julia Mannering did from the appearance of this Galwegian sibyl upon the common of Ellangowan.
Chapter LIII 1917
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In this they resemble the inland traditions of the peasants; but many of the oral treasures of the Galwegian or the Cumbrian coast have the stamp of the Dane and the Norseman upon them, and claim but a remote or faint affinity with the legitimate legends of Caledonia.
Stories of Mystery Various 1885
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We have not an interpreter at hand, and so cannot wrestle with the intricacies of the authoress's name, which appears to be some Galwegian form of
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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